The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency is in the early phases of engineering a next-generation “Star Wars”-type technology able to knock multiple incoming enemy targets out of space with a single interceptor, officials said.

The new system, called Multi-Object Kill Vehicle, or MOKV, is designed to release from a Ground Based Interceptor and destroy approaching Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles, or ICBMs -- and also take out decoys traveling alongside the incoming missile threat.

“We will develop and test, by 2017, MOKV command and control strategies in both digital and hardware-in-the-loop venues that will prove we can manage the engagements of many kill vehicles on many targets from a single interceptor. We will also invest in the communication architectures and guidance technology that support this game-changing approach,” Rick Lehner, spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency, told Scout Warrior a few months ago.

Decoys or countermeasures are missile-like structures, objects or technologies designed to throw off or confuse the targeting and guidance systems of an approaching interceptor in order to increase the probability that the actual missile can travel through to its target. If the seeker or guidance systems of a “kill vehicle” technology on a Ground Base Interceptor, or GBI, cannot discern an actual nuclear-armed ICBM from a decoy – the dangerous missile is more likely to pass through and avoid being destroyed. MOKV is being developed to address this threat scenario.

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded MOKV development deals to Boeing, Lockheed and Raytheon as part of a risk- reduction phase able to move the technology forward, Lehner said. (This piece first appeared in Scout Warrior here) Steve Nicholls, Director of Advanced Air & Missile Defense Systems for Raytheon, told Scout Warrior the MOKV is being developed to provide the MDA with “a key capability for its Ballistic Missile Defense System - to discriminate lethal objects from countermeasures and debris.

The kill vehicle, launched from the ground-based interceptor extends the ground-based discrimination capability with onboard sensors and processing to ensure the real threat is eliminated.”

MOKV could well be described as a new technological step in the ongoing maturation of what was originally conceived of in the Reagan era as “Star Wars” – the idea of using an interceptor missile to knock out or destroy an incoming enemy nuclear missile in space. This concept was originally greeted with skepticism and hesitation as something that was not technologically feasible. Not only has this technology come to fruition in many respects, but the capability continues to evolve with systems like MOKV.

MOKV, to begin formal product development by 2022, is being engineered with a host of innovations to include new sensors, signal processors, communications technologies and robotic manufacturing automation for high-rate tactical weapons systems, Nicholls explained. The trajectory of an enemy ICBM includes an initial “boost” phase where it launches from the surface up into space, a “midcourse” phase where it travels in space above the earth’s atmosphere and a “terminal” phase wherein it re-enters the earth’s atmosphere and descends to its target. MOKV is engineered to destroy threats in the “midcourse” phase while the missile is traveling through space.

An ability to destroy decoys as well as actual ICBMs is increasingly vital in today’s fast-changing technological landscape because potential adversaries continue to develop more sophisticated missiles, countermeasures and decoy systems designed to make it much harder for interceptor missile to distinguish a decoy from an actual missile. As a result, a single intercept able to destroy multiple targets massively increases the likelihood that the incoming ICBM threat will actually be destroyed more quickly without needing to fire another Ground Based Interceptor.

Raytheon describes its developmental approach as one that hinges upon what’s called “open-architecture,” a strategy designed to engineer systems with the ability to easily embrace and integrate new technologies as they emerge. This strategy will allow the MOKV platform to better adjust to fast-changing threats, Nicholls said. The MDA development plan includes the current concept definition phase, followed by risk reduction and proof of concept phases leading to a full development program, notionally beginning in fiscal year 2022, Nicholls explained. “This highly advanced and highly technical kill vehicle takes a true dedication of time and expertise to properly mature. It is essential to leverage advancements from other members of the Raytheon kill vehicle family, including the Redesigned Kill Vehicle,” Nicholls said.

While the initial development of MOKV is aimed at configuring the “kill vehicle” for a GBI, there is early thinking about integrating the technology onto a Standard Missile-3, or SM-3, an interceptor missile also able to knock incoming ICBMs out of space.The SM-3 is also an exo-atmopheric "kill vehicle," meaning it can destroy short and intermediate range incoming targets; its "kill vehilce" has no explosives but rather uses kinetic energy to collide with and obliterate its target. The resulting impact is the equivalent to a 10-ton truck traveling at 600 mph, Raytheon statements said. “Ultimately, these Multi-Object Kill Vehicles will revolutionize our missile defense architecture, substantially reducing the interceptor inventory required to defeat an evolving and more capable threat to the homeland,” Lehner said.

Zoharariel:
Haba! My Jewish priend, when will you stop giving yourself false hope about all these overrated Amerikan Defense Systems?

The Amerikan vampires in collaboration with the Ukrainian army have been covertly launching ballistic missiles against the Donbass just to test the preparedness & effectiveness of the Russian Missile Defense Systems; but they have been receiving the shock of their lives as the Russian ADS keeps proving its reliability, not only by shutting down those missiles (Tochka-U ballistic missiles) but also influencing their brains & changing their flight tasks before disabling them “in-flight” by the Russian Krasukha-4 EW system, as seen in this video below.

Again, I suppose you haven't heard about the Russian Murmansk-BN electronic warfare system which is capable of jamming more than 20 frequencies at a range of up to 5,000km (that is more than a distance from Lagos to Maiduguri ).

Now, tell me how your Amerikan defense apparatus would prevent the Russian Topol-M & SS-18 Satan from obliterating the Amerikan east & west coasts, if a couple of these incredible EW systems (Murmansk-BN) are airlifted & transported within 5000km radius of Amerika when such jamming radio-electronic suppression, would render comatose, the Patriot Missiles, THAAD & this overrated MOKV by influencing their brains - thereby making precise weapon guidance impossible?


Picture: The Murmansk-BN EW systems looking seductively sexy & ready to finger-fvck Amerika & NATO anytime their sexual urge push them into a war with Mother Russia

Missy89:


Wail 1, Scene 1

Prince of ijebu in the building . Hates America so much, his email is yandex. When are you going to stop using the internet altogether? The DoD is highly concerned about your presence on it.

Do you know that your lord and master Pootine thinks the internet is a CIA plot. You know, to encircle Russia and all

Lucasbalo:
Hating America is a sport to them and that's why I refer to them as HAC ( Hate America Club ). When you live in a Third World bottom of the barrel hell hole, there is a tendency to hate a World class prosperous country. If I am dwelling in a country where an average citizen makes less than $2 a day, I will hate America too. So there pathological hatred for America or anything American is understandable.

Lucasbalo:
Hating America is a sport to them and that's why I refer to them as HAC ( Hate America Club ). When you live in a Third World bottom of the barrel hell hole, there is a tendency to hate a World class prosperous country. If I am dwelling in a country where an average citizen makes less than $2 a day, I will hate America too. So there pathological hatred for America or anything American is understandable.

Zoharariel:


My money-doubling priend, I do not hate Denmark, I do not hate Netherlands, I do not hate Luxembourg, I do not hate Norway, I do not hate Sweden, heck! I even like Austria & Canada and these countries are also world class prosperous Nations but I hate Amerika for her lies & duplicity. I despise Amerika especially because 96% of the chaos in all the continents of the globe could be traced to her.

Amerika was responsible for the balkanization of Korea, balkanization of Sudan, balkanization of USSR, balkanization of Yugoslavia, balkanization of Czechoslovakia - and now she has set August as her date for the balkanization of Syria. Haba! Kilode? Is she the only country in the world?

What about Nigeria? If not for Obatala and Amadioha who restricted the Boko Haram menace to the North, Amerika would have succeeded in balkanizing Nigeria by now.

Take for example, her terrorist networks & organizations; In places like Afghanistan and Yemen, the enemy is “Al-Qaeda” which must be fought with her military might, while in Libya & Syria, the same “Al-Qaeda” is an ally fighting against the oppressive regimes of Gaddafi and Assad.

Does Amerika think we are all s.tupid?

My priend, until Amerika is completely burnt to ashes, I'm afraid the world will never know peace!